Evening

– As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, A..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.50 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 57 Minutes
Release Year:
2007
Evening (2007)

As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick Wilson), who was the love of her life.

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Evening (2007) - Trailer

Release Date:

29 Jun 2007

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers.

Director:

Lajos Koltai

Writer:

Susan Minot (screenplay), Michael Cunningham (screenplay), Susan Minot (novel)

Main Actors:

Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson

Plot:

The love which binds mother and daughter -- seen through the prism of one mother's life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters; Constance, a content wife and mother, and Nina, a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But who is this "Harris," wonder her daughters, and what is he to our mother? While Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life and their own lives, their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys in her mind back to a summer weekend some fifty years before, when she was Ann Grant, a young woman who has come from New York City to be maid of honor at the high-society Newport wedding of her dearest friend from college, Lila Wittenborn. The bride-to-be is jittery, and turns to her maid of honor rather than her own mother for support. Ann stays close to her friend, yet is even closer to Lila's irrepressible brother Buddy. Unexpected feelings surge forth once Ann meets wedding guest Harris Arden, a lifelong friend and intimate of the Wittenborn family. Ann's love for Harris will change her life, and those of her daughters, forever.

Awards:

2 nominations.

Gross profit:

$12,406,646

Production:

Focus Features

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
27%
Metacritic:
45%